Listen Up, Eye Rollers! - Part 2 of 2

Eye rollers, people who
condescendingly roll their eyes when confronted with truth, share
common characteristics: apathy, naivety, and of course blissful
ignorance. In addition, some eye rollers can be very dispassionate,
as exemplified in the following separate scenarios:

While attempting to explain the illegalities of unwarranted
surveillance, a friend replied - "As long as I am not doing
anything wrong, I don't care if they listen to my conversations."
While describing the potential tyrannical controls of Codex,
another person responded - "I'll just stop taking vitamins." A
friend borrowed a copy of Afghanistan After Democracy which
photographically illustrates the horrendous birth defects caused by
the ongoing use of depleted uranium by the U.S. government. Upon
returning the book, that person said - "Well, lots of people have
birth defects" implying that the cause is inconsequential and oh
well, too bad! Rejection of these and other circumstances does not
exempt media-dumbed-down American citizens from culpability or
relieve victims from the consequences. What affects one citizen's
liberty eventually affects all citizens.

Eye Rollers who read the daily papers assume they are
well-informed. Thomas Jefferson warned: "The man who never looks
into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them;
inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he
whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. It is a melancholy
truth that a suppression of the press could not more completely
deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned
prostitution to falsehood." It is currently legal to falsify or
fabricate "news." "Media propaganda tactics include blackouts,
misdirections, expert opinions to echo the Establishment line,
smears, defining popular opinions, mass entertainment
distractions," and the proliferation of the so-called conservative
and liberal positions.1

According to a decision by the Florida Appeals Court on February
14, 2003 in the Jane Akre whistleblower lawsuit, the court agreed
with Fox News who asserted that it is not against the law to
distort or falsify the news in the United States. "The Court held
that Akre's threat to report the station's actions to the FCC did
not deserve protection under Florida's whistle blower statute,
because Florida's whistle blower law states that an employer must
violate an adopted 'law, rule, or regulation.'"2 "Fair and balanced" Fox News,
citing the First Amendment, asserted that there is no rule against
distorting or falsifying or deliberately distorting the news on
public airways in the United States. The Bill of Rights was
designed to protect individual human
rights, not the government or corporations.
Apparently, corporations (inanimate entities) have appropriated
those liberties due to the deliberately ambiguous Fourteenth
Amendment.

The Florida Appeals court, in a questionable interpretation of the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) policy against
falsification of the news, claimed that the FCC policy was not law
but merely policy. Consequently, corporations decide what to
"report," without consideration of truth.3 Currently it is a crime for a
private citizen to lie to a government official, but it is not a
crime for a government official to lie to the people.4 Lying is not a
crime unless one "contracts" by their oath to tell the truth; that
is why government officials resist testifying under oath. Bush and
Cheney refused to testify under oath to the 9/11 Commission. With
few exceptions, lying politicians are rarely prosecuted. Yet,
citizens who perjure themselves often suffer harsh consequences.
Despite high-priced lawyers and public support, Martha Stewart was
jailed for lying, not for questionable stock transactions. She
unwittingly entered into a "contract" with the court to tell the
truth. The intimidating media-overkill sent a fearful message to
the masses. "When the people fear their government, there is
Tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is Liberty." -
Thomas Jefferson

"Five major media outlets filed briefs of Amici Curiae (friend of
FOX) - to support the FOX position: Belo Corporation, Cox
Television, Inc., Gannett Co., Inc., Media General Operations,
Inc., and Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc." Highly profitable corporate
broadcasters, through government complicity, and with the
protection of the court, have seized the public airways and
erroneously, but conveniently, shield themselves with the First
Amendment. Well-compensated, often arrogant and belligerent,
persuasive "pundits," without impunity, feign sincerity, propagate
the party line and increase profits for their corporate employers.
Contrary to the myth, they are not government watchdogs.

The airways belong to the people, not the government or
corporations who are intimate partners. Corporate monopolization of
the public airwaves will further increase with the FCC decision on
December 18, 2007 to allow even greater media consolidation. Bush
nominated Kevin Martin as an FCC member on April 30, 2001. Martin
served as the Deputy General Counsel for the Bush-Cheney campaign
in 2000 and participated in the Florida recount. Bush then
designated Martin as the FCC chairman on March 18, 2005.5 Martin wants to end
limits on media ownership by removing the "cross-ownership ban."
This plan takes effect shortly if unimpeded. Since 1983, the number
of corporations owning most newspapers, magazines, book publishers,
recorded music, movie studios, television and radio stations has
decreased from fifty to five.6 Prior to his FCC position, Martin was
Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. His wife,
Catherine, was a spokeswoman for Cheney during the Valerie Plame
fiasco and now works on Bush's communications staff.7

Media corporations share board members with "other large
corporations including banks, investment companies, oil companies,
health care, pharmaceutical, and technology companies." Media
systems, until the 1980's, were domestically owned, regulated, and
national in scope. Together with the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and the World Bank, the U.S. government deregulated and
privatized all communications media which "resulted in a global
commercial media system dominated by a small number of
super-powerful transnational media corporations (mostly U.S.
based), working to advance the cause of global markets and the CIA
agenda."8

The 1934 Communications Act, and later the Fairness Doctrine
(1949)9
allowed equal time to opposing opinions. Mark S. Fowler, a
communications lawyer appointed to head the FCC by President Ronald
Reagan, aggressively opposed the Fairness Doctrine as well as the
First Amendment. "He set about pruning, chopping, slashing,
eliminating, burying and deep-sixing fifty years of regulations
that guarded against monopolistic practices and excessive
commercialism and protected the public interest standard." The
Fairness Doctrine, along with diversity, fairness, equal time and
objectivity was rescinded in 1987. Television and radio stations
were no longer required to present both sides of important or
controversial issues nor give equal time to candidates.10 Networks have
called early election results affecting western voters and a whole
plethora of issues. Elite-selected candidates are promoted while
constitutional candidates are ignored or ridiculed.

For decades U.S. "news" has been fabricated. Radio Free Europe and
the Committee for a Free Europe were big priorities for Truman and
his crony, Frank Wisner. Wisner, a Wall Street lawyer, was a Navy
censor, head of Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operations in
southeastern Europe at the end of World War II, and the head of the
Directorate of Plans (clandestine chief) of the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the 1950s. He was the OSS liaison
to the Gehlen Organization, was a senior CIA official (from
1947 until 1965) and was involved in the overthrow of Arbenz in
Guatemala (1954) and Mossadeq in Iran (1953). He was the first
Director of the CIA's covert action wing called the Office of
Policy Coordination (created 1948).

Wisner, along with Allen Dulles, Richard Helms and Phillip Graham
(publisher of The Washington Post and husband of CFR/Trilateralist
Katharine Graham) established Operation Mockingbird, the CIA program designed to
completely control the U.S. media. The CIA collaborated with
media-skilled Nazi war criminals who conveniently escaped the
gallows after Nuremburg.11 General Reinhard, Klaus Barbie, Otto von
Bolschwing (Eichmann's crony) and SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny joined
the CIA's perception management efforts. "There's even evidence
that Martin Bormann, Hitler's second-in-command at the end of the
war, faked his own death and escaped to Latin America, where he
worked with CIA-linked groups."12 "We'll know our disinformation program
is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
William Casey, CIA Director (staff meeting, 1981).

A real chip off the old globalist block, Wisner's son, Frank G.
Wisner, Jr. (CFR, Bilderberger), was ambassador to the Philippines from
August 1991 until June 1992. He is Executive Vice President of the
American International Group (AIG), the world's third largest
capital investment pool and a leading member of the World Trade
Organization. Maurice Greenberg is the former chairman. AIG's
insurance operations, including the entire period under Greenberg's
leadership, have been connected to CIA covert operations. AIG
purchased those six ports from Dubai. You remember those ports -
U.S. citizens demanded that the government not sell the ports to
Dubai. Well, they did anyway and then Dubai sold them to
AIG.13

"Directly relevant to the post-9/11 events, current members of
AIG's board of directors include former US ambassador and CFR
member Richard Holbrooke, a major post-9/11 war advisor to the Bush
administration and business partner of George Soros." The board
included Frank Wisner, Jr., a former Enron director. Wisner Jr.,
then U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, helped Enron win contracts
to operate two Subic Bay power plants despite "fierce local
opposition."14 While in India, Wisner secured numerous
"deals" for Enron. He left India only after Enron was firmly
entrenched.15

Wisner preceeded Paul Wolfowitz as United States Department of
Defense Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from January 1993 to
June 1994. In 2003, Frank Wisner, Jr. was co-chairman of a new
independent task force report on Afghanistan cosponsored by the
Council on Foreign Relations.16 He, along with Richard Armitage, is on
the Board of Directors of the Institute for Middle East Peace and
Development.17 Wisner is also a trustee with the
Rockefeller Brothers Fund.18 Families that prey together get richer
and accrue power with each generation.

Truman and Eisenhower were the first two presidents to introduce
and mobilize propaganda as an official peacetime institution. It
was a "war of words" and an "integral component of the government's
foreign policy operation." Both Truman and Eisenhower employed
propaganda and psychological strategy in order to promote the "Cold
War" operation. In fact, much of the planning for the "Cold War"
took place during the administration of these two
presidents.19

The unrestricted propaganda operation, without congressional
oversight, was controlled by the president. This, along with
unconstitutional treaties, increased presidential power while
decreasing constitutional checks and balances. Presidential
influence (intervention) metastasized outside of the country,
especially with Reagan who was perfect globalist material. The
"great communicator" was a "trustworthy" spokesperson who Americans
supported. The perfect "persuader" led the U.S. into the highly
profitable military buildup. He got help from abroad. Former
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos donated $12 million dollars
to Reagan's 1980 and 1984 presidential campaigns. That money,
according to rumor, was used, in part, to "sabotage Carter's
negotiations to free 52 U.S. hostages held in Iran.20

The National Security Council (NSC) was created by Public Law
80-253, approved on July 26, 1947, a reorganization of the U.S.
security apparatus. Its function was to advise the president
(chairman of the Council) on "integration of domestic, foreign, and
military policies relating to national security and to facilitate
interagency cooperation. At the President's direction, the NSC also
assesses and appraises risks to U.S. national security, considers
policies and then reports or makes recommendations to the
President."21 This legislation also provided for a
Secretary of Defense, a National Military Establishment, the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Security
Resources Board."22

The NSC was organized with the following seven permanent members:
the President; the Secretaries of State, Defense, the Army, the
Navy, and the Air Force; and the Chairman of the National Security
Resources Board. The CIA Director reports to the NSC and can attend
meetings and advise but is not a NSC member.23 The Amendments Act of 1949
removed the three military services from NSC membership and added
the Vice-President. Additionally, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff was added as an advisor.24

Harry S. Truman replaced the Office of Strategic Services (OSS),
created June 13, 1942, with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
in 1947. Truman struggled to regularize U.S. psychological warfare
and the CIA which is not an intelligence-gathering operation - that
misconception is one of the agency's greatest propaganda
triumphs.25
"Despite its name, the Central Intelligence Agency's main purpose
is, and has always been, carrying out covert operations involving
economic warfare, rigged elections, assassinations and genocide.
"The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that 6 million
people had died by 1987 as a result of CIA covert
operations."26 The CIA distorts intelligence to justify
its own goals. This "disinformation" deceives policymakers and has
resulted in organized terror throughout the world. Using the CIA,
our government breaks national and international laws in the name
of national security.27

In addition to the CIA, Truman, careful never to use the word
"propaganda" bypassed the wrangling National Security Council and,
through a Presidential Directive28 (addressed to The Secretary of State,
The Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence)
founded the Psychological Strategy Board (PSB), on April 4, 1951 as
suggested by Gordon Gray, a CFR member, who was the Board's first
director.29
Henry Kissinger was Gray's consultant. Gray worked for Frank
Wisner's Wall Street Law firm, was a State Senator and also became
a newspaper publisher - The Winston-Salem Journal and the Twin
Cities Sentinel. He was the son of tobacco baron, Bowman Gray,
chairman of the R. J. Reynolds Corporation.

There were two major purposes of the PSB: legitimize and
institutionalize propaganda during peacetime and as a war of words
during the orchestrated "Cold War" and to enable a president to
commandeer congressional responsibility at the expense of the
American republic. The Psychological Strategy Board was chaired by
the CIA and consisted of the following: (1) Undersecretary of
State, (2) The Deputy Secretary of Defense, (3) Director of Central
Intelligence, (4) A representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
(5) An appropriate representative or head of any department or
agency of the Government as determined by the Board.30

On Thursday 26 July 1951, President Truman told the media that the
Psychological Strategy Board was a part of the Central Intelligence
Agency. The Board was terminated by Executive Order 10483 of
September 3, 1953. Its functions were transferred to the Operations
Coordinating Board (OCB). These agencies, without any congressional
oversight, would assist in the ideological "war of words" against
communism. The CIA has published and disseminated hundreds of books
promoting the official Cold War party line. Their newspapers and
magazines throughout the world provides cover for their agents and
allows the implementation of misinformation that consistently
reaches U.S. audiences via the wire services which also "employs"
CIA agents who prevent problematic facts from public
exposure.31

In 1977, Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein (exposed
Watergate with Bob Woodward) declared that over 400 US journalists
were CIA employees "who have secretly carried out assignments
according to documents on file at CIA headquarters, from
intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens." A high-level
source told Bernstein, "One journalist is worth twenty
agents."32
CIA media assets include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated
Press, United Press International (UPI), Reuters, Hearst
Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, and Copley News Service. The CIA had
infiltrated the nation's businesses, media, and universities with
tens of thousands of on-call operatives by the 1950's. CIA Director
Dulles had staffed the CIA almost exclusively with Ivy League
graduates, like George H. W. Bush, from Yale's infamous Skull and
Bones (Brotherhood of Death) Society.33 So, who provides your
perceptions?

About the Author

Deanna Spingola has been a quilt designer and is
the author of two books. She has traveled extensively teaching and
lecturing on her unique methods. She has always been an avid reader
of non-fiction works designed to educate rather than entertain. She
is active in family history research and lectures on that topic.
Currently she is the director of the local Family History Center.
She has a great interest in politics and the direction of current
government policies, particularly as they relate to the
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